The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-18

man of the Presbyterian denomination
in New York at this moment is the
Rev John Hall, q Belfast Irishman
The representative minister OF the Con-
gregationsIist body is DR.. Taylor, a
Scotchman, who was chosen as Mr..
Thompson's successor at the Taber-
nscie. DR.. Ormiston, another Scotch
man, graces the pulpit of the highly fash
10 aole Dutch Reformed Church. The
Rev Robert Collysr, an Englishman an, is
the leading light Of Unitarianism- and
even Plymouth Church itself was desir-
Gus Of securing he services or an Eng
lish preacher, the Rev. G. a. Berry. a
success r TO Mr.. Baecher.
The real test to be applied to a reli-
gion is the question What does 1t
claim for itself? Is it merely COM
pend of ethica teachings Or is it q pre-
! ternatural revelation from HEAVIER ?
! What does lis founder assume 10 re
| and does Le e. abiIsh his a'am2 eau
tama, Coufucius, Laotze, Mohanmed-
no. OF these pretended $40 be divine
whereas Jesus announced Himsel as
! the Son of the Father, the express
image and glory of the Godhead, ard
such Is HIS place in all history
Concerning the unseen world
and the life to come Confucius
was corfessedly agnOstic and the teach
iDgs of Gautama, advanced to the last
given conclusion of blank atheism-nay
DihilIsm which swept away the soul
itself; while Jesus standing N the
presence of The dead declared Himself
the Resurrection and the LIfa.-Ghris-
tjaa Thought.
RESPECTING the use of the rosary, q.
correspondent in Notes and Queries
points out that in Chatham 5 Die
tioG6ry Of Christian Antiquities there |
is an article on the subject by the late
Mr.. SCudsuore. While admitting the |
early use of Tosaries by Mosems and |
BUddhists, the learned writer says: |
'The rosary of the Church OF Rome /
comparatively modern. Pins Y. in
bull (l596) asCIibes tc st. Dominic the
invention Of the rosary or psalteT OF
the blessed virgin. The heads |
are, however, described by Polydore
Vergil. 1899. The invention of
this instrument he assigns to Peter the
Hermit, who hounshed in 1890 The
number Of beads may be due to Peter,
but earlier III the same century We meet
with a similar contrivarCe," IN the
founded at Coventry by
Leofric ard GCdgifu. Thus it ems
sorrect to speak OF thirteenth century
monks as telling beads, out notas using
r0saries.
s. GLASS of men has sprung up among
US who deciare that the American idea
is mistake from beginning to end; that
American freedom is a fiction; thai
instead o. being the freest we are the
most dOwntrodden people on the face
Of the earth, and that our Gar, our
-yrant, is a King Capital which buys
up and CUrrupts 10 is own ends our
legislatures, our judicisTies, our police |
our courts of justice, our army snd
navy. If this charge be true, or II any
aTge measure true, then The American
Republic mas lived IN vain, and the
great work Of the fathers Of the Re
Du bic, which wss carried on and main | :
aimed by their loyal and patriotic SONS, /
las been also 7ein-a failure, q megnih G
ent failure, If you Will-but al The '
more emphatic for lis magUiiCsnce- As
,or Sup enc Being, a God, who would :
punish sins and crimes committed in !
this life, no man of them believes in 5
such. One and all are stepped in the
same perniciOus doctrines, There Is &c =
Sod, no hereafter, 10 religion. There .
g to be no church, no government, no
local order. no marriage no property,
10 crime, no punishment for crime.
Perjury, bCmh-thrOTlng, assassination,
arson, robbery, are all tritiing matters,
)nce you succeed in shutting out God
md Gods law from this world. What
would al this mean but a veritable hell
IN earth ?-CGtbOtic ReVielD. 5